Now for Rent: Email Addresses and Phone Numbers for Millions of Trump Supporters

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — Early in his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump dismissed political data as an “overrated” tool. But after he won the Republican nomination, his team began building a database that offers a pipeline into the heart of the party’s base, a comprehensive list including the email addresses and cellphone numbers of as many as 20 million supporters.

Now, consultants close to the Trump campaign are ramping up efforts to put that database — by far the most sought-after in Republican politics — to use, offering it for rent to candidates, conservative groups and even businesses.

It is an arrangement that has the potential to help the Republican Party in key midterm races, while providing a source of revenue for President Trump’s campaign and the consultants involved.

It has also set off concerns about diluting the power of one of Mr. Trump’s most potent political assets, while raising questions about whether his team is facilitating the sort of political profiteering that he disparaged during his campaign.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/us/politics/trump-political-data.html

[lancelyons]

1. Dems need to take this mailer list and send them all a conversion reprogramming pamphlet.

[lagomorph777]

6. +1 Trump will sell anything for a buck. Buy it and exploit it.

[Freethinker65]

2. Drain them dry. I don't really care, do u?

I would be angry if they sold my info, but Trumpsters seem to like sacrificing for charlatans.

[DonViejo]

3. K & R

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[ooky]

4. I would think scammers would love to have this list.

Trump voters will buy anything.

[FSogol]

5. Scammers (the GOP) already have the list.

[ooky]

7. They are definitely running a scam.

[unblock]

8. where do you think Donnie got the list in the first place?

[pecosbob]

9. Let's sell the list to one of those Nigerian princes

[47of74]

17. Or the people behind the IRS is coming to get you calls

[SunSeeker]

10. A list of the easily conned is quite valuable to crooked pols and businesses.

The stoopid will soon have many more people competing to empty their pockets.

[SergeStorms]

12. I'm thinking those "Microsoft Techs"....

would have a ball with these morons. Just about any scammer could send them an email, and they'd open anything as long as it had "Trump" on the subject line. That list is worth big coin to unscrupulous scammers, and I hope they all get a piece of them.

[SunSeeker]

18. Yes, amazing how gullible these otherwise paranoid idiots are. nt

[turbinetree]

11. Donald Trump Touts Trump Brands From Steaks to Wine and he now has a list........to sell too.......

[SergeStorms]

13. Trump University? "We'll win the lawsuit".

"And there are a lot of great people who want to get back into it Trump University. It's going to do very well".

Donnie? You've lost money on every "great idea" you've ever had. All of those things he's touting in this "commercial" during the Republican primary campaigns are now down the sewer. You'll be chasing them all down the sewer very soon, Donnie. When Mueller gets done with you, you'll wish you'd never been born. 70% of the country already wishes you were never born, and the other 30% are as as stupid as you.

[turbinetree]

16. Yepper, spot on.........................and then they have this bunch...................

I just wondered how many of them are on Social Security and Medicare...........or there parents, disable relative, friend..............and there buffoon is out telling them that he is going to not touch them.............

I really think someone should put up a Kool Aid stand out side there clan meetings.................

[iluvtennis]

14. Making money off of the data from data collected by Cambridge Analytica/Russians. GAH.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. 20 million of the most gullible people on the planet

What could go wrong?

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Seriously, I'd rent the list and convert these people over. Why not? After all, they're being ...

aggressive too towards us in all manner of ways, so lets make them fight for every vote, and lets don't give them one single red cent or inch. Make them fight for every single vote, make them fight for everything. Don't be nice anymore. It's time to 'go to war' and win! (of course I'm being metaphorical here). Like the one repug running for office, lets stomp on their faces (of course I'm being metaphorical here too).

We're all Americans, if we convince them too, that we have families like them, we're like them, and point out the failings of this corrupt administration and keep hammering this point again and again (and remember, rump is undisciplined and difficult to control via his handlers, we'll have the upper hand in staying focused, also remember that rump's declared bankruptcy quite a few times, and is prone to anger easily).

Remind them of his cronies and the corruption and the ones already convicted. Remind them of the so called tax break that they rec'd under rump...are they really seeing $9,000 extra per claims of the 2018 tax cut and jobs bill passed? Remind them that it was republicans that grabbed these folks and convicted them.

Kick in the same place that they wouldn't hesitate to do to us either. It's truly a life changing event, these times. It's time to start acting that way.

[zonkers]

20. I call BULLSHIT and bet that list has already been stolen, overused and abused by

anyone who got their hands on it. That SOP in Trump "get mine"culture. I have no doubt Trump and associiates know this and are hawking something that is worthless.